AIBU to put this above my fireplace?

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About to move into my first apartment. AIBU to put this above the fireplace, or will people think i'm unhinged?

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You have probably covered this already, but what is it you like about it? I think you should put up what you like. That goes without saying, but I'm intrigued by why you like it.

I quite like the 2nd one. I love the colours.

I think it's lovely

Quite magical and something I'd have in my house.

It's your home and you can put whatever you like in it.

My house is full of Dali prints, artistic representations of transactional analysis and a (word art I guess?) print of the Horde symbol + a couple of photo montage canvasses.

Who knows what people make of that collection? I rather like it though.

Do what you like in your house.

Haven't rtt, but can anyone tell me what that awful picture of a couple, a swan and moonlight is called?

Sorry to be rude op, but your pic reminds me of it. It was in what's now my DM's room when she first moved in.

Anything by Thomas Kinkade is awful, IMO. But if you like it knock yourself out.

I think if you decorated the entire room a certain way the castle could look quite good. If it were the centre piece in a white room for example.

With the wrong decoration it will look beyond awful.

Nescafé is made by Nestle and IMO tastes horrid. Two reasons not to severe it, regardless of your decor.

If you like it and you'll like looking at it then buy it and get it up on your wall. There's hundreds of people on here, some will love it, some won't but it's not their house it's going to be in so it really doesn't matter.

Get it and put a pink flock covered unicorn on the mantelpiece as an up yours to anyone who doesn't like it.

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I'd sit looking at it with a big mug of Nescafe.

I'd turn my pink fairy lights on as well.

Yy. Fairy lights. Not even joking. I love fairy lights.

I really do have pink fairy lights in my kitchen. And loads of solar lights in my garden.

I do like pretty lights.

Lapsed it's called The Wings of Love and is by Stephen Pearson

In the Kinkade castle painting the street lights are on when it's clearly daytime. That would bother me every time I looked at it.

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I really do have pink fairy lights in my kitchen. And loads of solar lights in my garden

I do like pretty lights

Snap, I have exactly that. You can't have too many fairy lights.

OP, the best thing about having your own place is you can decorate it 100% however the fuck you want. And if somebody should stick their nose up at a picture or, god forbid, the instant coffee you serve then you can kick them out the door. Because at the end of the day, they are a guest in your space.

I have a cuddly wyvern from WOW glaring at everyone in the living room, along with admittedly the most hideous rug created (it was cheap, OK? And the orange bits didn't look so... orange, in the online picture), a Discworld calendar, various video game and movie themed toys and a random collection of zombie stuff. I have plans to add some tacky GoT/medieval stuff to really highlight the bare stone walls*

I don't like your picture. But like others have said, I'd rather see stuff on your wall that you actually like than some print you bought because it was in vogue or you thought it would impress the guests.

You can always adopt magnolia paint, feature walls, twigs in vases or farrow and balls if you want to in the future. Décor is not forever

*I secretly want my place to look like a steampunk workshop, or an Undercity apothecary's lab (WOW reference sorry), or a medieval hall (but it's far too small so sod that idea...) or something from Fable II, or a... anything but a living room

Just follow the words of William Morris:

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”

Congratulations on the new flat OP.

I love that quote.

To be honest, I wish I had more courage regarding the look of things. There are lots of things I like that I become a bit self critical over and don't because they are a bit out there.

Hurrah for those that buy what they like and don't follow a magazine's idea of good taste of buy matcha matching things that match. Hurrah for those with their own minds who don't care what anyone else thinks! Go wild and do whatever you like. I wish more people would!!

don't buy.

Punctuating no less than three paragraphs with inane grinning faces is, however, fucking unpardonable. Sorry.

I've always thought that if I was the bloke in The Wings Of Love I'd be a wee bit nervous about the way that swan was staring at my tackle.

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Brilliant, Plenty, thanks